United States History (#2100310)
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Unit 1: Westward Expansion & Causes of the Civil War
Lesson B: Slavery & Westward Expansion Class Periods: 1 Class Period |
Standards/Benchmarks: *SS.912.A.2.1: Review causes and consequences of the Civil War.
Remarks/Examples: Examples may include, but are not limited to, slavery, states rights, territorial claims, abolitionist movement, regional differences, Reconstruction, 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. |
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Objectives: Evaluate the impact of Westward Expansion and the Compromise policies |
Essential Question: How did the election of 1860 affect the possibility of compromise on the issue of slavery? What were the positive and negative benefits of territorial expansion during the 1840s and 1850s? What factors intensified sectional conflict in the 1850s? |
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Higher Order Questions: How did the political system attempt to resolve the issues of sectionalism and slavery?
Why did Americans want to expand westward, and why were they willing to go to war to secure the west? |
Vocabulary: Empresario Popular sovereignty Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act Manifest Destiny Bleeding Kansas Henry Clay |
The Election of 1860 Southern Secession Dred Scott v. Sanford Jefferson Davis
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Instructional Strategy Ideas: I Do Teachers could use a political cartoon illustrating the conflict of the Compromise of 1850 and model for students how to analyze the cartoon using the political cartoon analysis protocol (document attached). Teacher would also provide a 15-20 portion of guided noted to students during this time. We Do Student groups could be assigned different political cartoons on any of the Westward Expansion or Compromise policies and use the political cartoon analysis protocol. Students would then share out their analysis whole group as each separate cartoon is projected upon completion.
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Differentiation Ideas: Have a Socratic seminar on how regional differences contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. Review some of the significant events that, from 1860 to 1861, led 11 Southern states to secede from the Union. For example: o Compromise of 1850 o Fugitive Slave Act o Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin o Dred Scott Decision o Kansas-Nebraska Act o John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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United States History (#2100310)
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You Do Students could answer the essential questions in their interactive notebooks. To further extend this, students could read at least two other students responses and be responsible to adding at least one fact or detail to their cohorts work. (this is a round robin collaborative strategy).
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The following questions will help guide the conversation: How did the economies of the North and South differ before the Civil War? (The North was industrialized; the South was agricultural.)
Why was slavery so important to the South? (Landowners depended on slaves to work in the fields; the South's economy was entirely dependent on slavery.)
How did the addition of new states to the Union create dispute? (Free states and slave states both worried about the other side having an advantage. The Missouri Compromise, for example, was designed to maintain a balance of power.)
Have students read the letter of Stephen F. Hale, Secession Commissioner from Alabama, to Governor Beriah Magoffin of Kentucky, December 27, 1860 Divide the class into two groups to debate the pros and cons of the following statement, basing their arguments primarily on the views expressed by Hale: The secession of the Southern states from the Union was based on Southern whites racist belief in white supremacy. |
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Resources:
Causes of the Civil War: http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/civilwar/a/CivilWarCauses.htm
Images/Cartoons Video of Frederick Douglass, Fourth of July Speech, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtDmVgG3Vog
The Secession Movement http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/4993
Southern Chivalry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner#/media/File:Southern_Chivalry.jpg
Textbook - Florida United States History & Geography, Modern Times; McGraw Hill : Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Antebellum America (pages 51 56) Chapter 1, Lesson 4: The Sectional Crisis (pages 57 62)
Gateway to American History, Jarret & Yahng (2013) Chapter 1: The Civil War (pages 1-22) |
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